Vista - Unable to Create New Line in Text File

TEMPLATE.scp contains
"blah

SomeText

blah"


I’m trying to create a text file and replace ‘SomeText’ with
"blah

OtherText1
OtherText2

blah"

What I get is:

"blah

OtherText1[]OtherText2

blah"


Here is the code:


$oldFile = "C:\TEST\TEMPLATE.scp"
$newFile = "C:\TEST\LIVE.scp"
$NewText = ""

Function UpdateNewFile($NewText)
{

(Get-Content $oldFile) |
ForEach-Object `
{
$_ -replace 'SomeText', $NewText

} | Set-Content $newFile
}


("1","2") | ForEach-Object {

$NewText = $NewText + "OtherText" + $_ + "`r"

}

UpdateNewFile($NewText)

Windows' Newline is "`r`n", you could just replace the "`r" with "`r`n" in the statement that builds $NewText, but you'll end up with an extra blank line. I'd suggest to create a String[] and pass that to your function, then join the array with "`r`n" and use that String in the -replace command.

# compare...
[Int[]][Char[]][Environment]::NewLine
# ...with
[Int[]][Char[]]"`r`n"

# - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - #

$oldFile = "C:\TEST\TEMPLATE.scp"
$newFile = "C:\TEST\LIVE.scp"

Function UpdateNewFile([String[]]$NewText) {
# join the array with "`r`n" through a call to String's Join static
# method, the output is a String. In v2 you'd use the -join operator
$NewText = [String]::Join("`r`n", $NewText)

# do the replace w/o the ForEach-Object Cmdlet and set the content
# to the new file
(Get-Content $oldFile) -replace 'SomeText', $NewText |
Set-Content $newFile
}

# set the new text as a String[] (String array)
[String[]]$NewText = 1,2 | ForEach-Object {"OtherText$_"}

# pass the arguments to your function _w/o_ parenthesis, that is a
# common mistake. In PowerShell, arguments are space-delimited
UpdateNewFile $NewText


--
Robert